Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1887-05-14
NEW CONSERVATIVE CURE.


\ large share of professional and
public attention has quite recently
been directed to the administration of
gaseous cnemata for the treatment of
blood poisoning and Of affections of
the respiratory passages. The object
in VIEWS to supply to the vcnouS circu-
lation an a~ntiScptic, such As hydrogen
sulphidc, in sufficient doses TO be cf-
fcctiyc-a result impossible when sup
piled directly TO the ~artcrial current,
u plan which would poison the patient.
hydrogen sulphido in far less than suf-
lcient doses would suilocatc the pa
tient; taken by the stomach, it would
produce other serious results. Admin
iStcrcd by the bowels, however, and
entering the ycnous current already de-
Perforated by organic refuse, it is quick
" eliminated by the respiratory tract,
which thus becomes subjected TO its
beneficial local antiscptic effects with
out subiccting the system at large to
injury, rs when thrown into the ar
tcrial current. In other words, the
parasite i, killed, without killing the
individual. Its beneficial effects in
phthisiS are explained by the action of
the gas on the suppuratiyc and septic
surfaces, and not by any influence ON
the bacillus tuberculosis; the consump-
ton o the exhaustion, being due
to the %suppuration and to the consc-
Qucnt scpticTmia, and not immc-
diately to the bacillus, which,
while it produces the destruction
of tissue, does not produce the
morbid phenomena, The method
of administration utilities the dis
covery announced by Bernard in 1857,
that toxic materials introduced into
the economy through an organ at a
distance from the a%rtcrial system could
not penetrate into the a%rterial system
because il is eliminated before that
system can be reached. Volatile sub.
stances are eliminated by the pulmon.
AIRY alvcoli.
July II, 1856, DR.. Bergcon commu-
nicatcd TO the French Academy Of
Sciences the results Of several years
investigation into the method, and
Prof. Cornil also presented a later pa.
per on the subject.
Various antiSeptIc gases and vapoIS
have been tried. but abandoned on nc.
count of local irritant action, but a
mixture of carbon dioxide (carboni,
acid gas) and hydrogen sulphidc (su}.
phercttcd hydrogcn) is entirely harm.
less when properly used and con-,
rletcly deprived of atmospheric air,
The method has up to the present beer
, used upon about one hundred eases il
, this city without any untoward effects
so far as known, except in one or tvs
instances, one of which was due TO +
. leaky bag and another to incorrccI
administration. 1t is, perhaps, to.
y soon to decide positively on the thcra
pcutic value of the new method, but i
seems in the experience in this cit,
to have the special quality of diminish
ing night sweats and improving tn,
appetite,
n In %Bergeon's eases the trining OK
I, pectorations of those apparently prac
ticaly cured continued to contai,
bacilli. This fact may be taken botl
J, for an indication that the Immediate
danger in phthisis is less from tn,
a baccill than from the septicmmia whicl
!, they set up, and rs an indication tina,
h this protective treatment, when sue.
c%cssfth, should not be discontinue
a until The general healthiness OF Oh,
tissues is sufficiently restored to rcsis
the further development and susie
nance Of the bacillus tuberculosis
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